
Scholarships
Amount: $10,000. About: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) offers the AIAA Lockheed Martin Marillyn Hewson Scholarship, which is made possible by donations from the Hewson Family Foundation and Lockheed Martin and is available to female students demonstrating financial need. Applicants must be high school seniors or undergraduate students enrolled in an aerospace-related
Amount: Varies. About: The American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) offers scholarships for students whose parents or guardians are Foreign Service employees and members of the AFSA. Applicants must be high school seniors, college freshmen, college sophomores or college juniors, be the legal dependents of a U.S. government Foreign Service employee, and have at least a
Amount: Up to $3,500. About: The American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) offers two merit scholarships for students whose parents or guardians are Foreign Service employees and members of the AFSA: Academic Merit Scholarship and Art Merit Scholarship. Applicants must be high school seniors and the legal dependents of a U.S. government Foreign Service employee. For
Amount: $500-$5,000. About: The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America holds an annual college scholarship essay contest for high school seniors, for which the grand prize winner is granted a $5,000 scholarship. Entrants must write a 1,200 to 1,500-word essay describing the impact of Alzheimer’s disease on themselves, their families, or their communities, and what they have
Amount: Varies. About: Each year, AFCEA Washington, DC awards STEM scholarships to graduating high school seniors. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, live within the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (greater DC area), be either graduating from high school or transitioning from a two-year community college to a four-year college or university, and
Amount: $2,500-$20,000. About: The Ascend Educational Fund (AEF) awards scholarships worth up to $20,000 of each year to immigrant students and children of immigrants graduating from New York City Schools. Applicants must be born outside of the United States or have two parents born outside of the United States, be a graduating high school senior